2025 Annual Meeting

DISCLOSURE OF FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

Winners and Awardees

Best Poster in Patient and Family Education

MOC05 Understanding the Learning Needs of People Living with Multiple Sclerosis (MS)

Aprile Royal¹, Nasser AlOhaly², Suzanne Ezekiel³ Jiwon Oh⁴
¹BARLO MS Program, Unity Health – St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²Medicine (Neurology), St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³BARLO Multiple Sclerosis Program, Unity Health Toronto – St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; ⁴Division of Neurology, Department of Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, Unity Health Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

Best Poster in MS Research

REH04 Evaluating Safety during Exercise Training in Adults with Multiple Sclerosis: Does Where You Exercise Matter?

Casey Kandilakis¹, Robert W Motl², Jeffrey Hebert³, Francois Bethoux⁴, Alexander V. Ng⁵, Prudence Plummer⁶, Kevin McCully⁷, Whitney N. Neal⁸, Jonathan Lowman⁸, Gary Cutter⁹ Deborah Backus¹
¹Shepherd Center, Atlanta, GA; ²University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL; ³University of Colorado, Aurora, CO; ⁴Cleveland Clinic Neurological Institute, Cleveland, OH; ⁵Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; ⁶MGH Institute of Health Professions, Boston, MA; ⁷University of Georgia, Athens, GA; ⁸University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL; ⁹UAB School of Public Health, Birmingham, AL

Best Platform in MS Research

PLA-C6 Walk It out: Acute Treadmill Walking Exercise Reduces State Anxiety in People with Multiple Sclerosis Who Have Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Petra Šilić¹, Robert W Motl²
¹Kinesiology and Nutrition, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL; ²Department of Kinesiology and Community Health, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL

Best Presentation in the Whitaker Track for Young Investigators

WHI05 Real World Efficacy of Cladribine Tablets in a Canadian Tertiary Centre Beyond 4 Years after Initiation

Katherine M Sawicka^1,2,3, Arshia Vosoughi¹, Fasna Raufdeen¹, Melanie Guenette¹, Reza Vosoughi¹, Daniel Selchen¹ Jiwon Oh¹
¹St. Michael’s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada; ²University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada; ³The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada

Linda Morgante Hope Award (IOMSN)

QOL24 Quality of Life in Multiple Sclerosis; Fundamentals of Building a Quality-of-Life Clinic (QOL) at an Academic Center

Kristi Epstein, APRN-CNP, Ohio State University

“ARTY” Award for Best Practices in Rehabilitation in MS

Kathleen M. Zackowski, PhD, OTR, MSCS
Associate Vice President of the National MS Society

Fred Foley Award for Best Practices in Mental Health and MS

Elizabeth S. Gromisch, PhD

Mandell Center for Multiple Sclerosis at Mount Sinai Rehabilitation Hospital (Hartford, Connecticut)

Promise Award in Memory of Lael Stone to a Young Writer or Clinician

Leah A. Munroe, MSW

Herndon Award for Best Article in IJMSC

Consultative, Proactive Physical Therapy in Early Multiple Sclerosis

Monica Hendricksen, PT, MPT, NCS

June Halper Excellence in MS Nursing Care Award (IOMSN)

Bonnie Blain, RN, CNN (C), MSCN

LiveWise Award (IOMSN)
Wellness in MS

Crystal Wright, RN, AGNP-BC, MSN, MSCN

International MS Nurse Leadership Award (IOMSN)

Therese Burke, RN, MACN, MSCN, CRND, PhD

Research Award (IOMSN)

Diane Sneve, RN

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